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True creation requires stepping into undefined space where our question stays open, unknown. When we latch onto an answer too soon we limit our potential to see. We shut down the magic that comes from wonder and curiosity. We engage the analytical mind without allowing space for our intuition.

This empty space full of potential “the void,” can only exist if we allow it to. The void is an exceptionally challenging place to live. It’s counter to our survival instinct, that wants to feel safe by having answers. Yet allowing space for the unknown is where we experience breakthroughs in awareness.

Breakthroughs are precious moments where our consciousness shifts and we see from a new perspective. Unless forced by circumstances, most of us don’t intentionally make time in our lives for the creative void. When life wants to get our attention, we find ourselves in a challenge that requires we wait, pause, slow down and NOT know.

Our analytical mind wants to have the answer and move on. It gets frustrated by delay. It is compelled to solve whatever dilemma or puzzle is before it. It doesn’t like to be put on-hold while we allow ourselves to be in the unknown, waiting for new possibilities to be reveal.

Our intuitive mind has a more gentle approach. It gives us signals, hints, opportunities to notice the contribution it can provide. It doesn’t bark at us but calls to us.

The analytical mind harasses us for explanations, justification and evidence before we act on our intuition. The intuitive mind invites us to trust the creative zone of questions that have no pre-defined answer. It leads us, one awareness at a time, in a direction we might never have imagined, to places we never knew existed.

The magic of creation expands when we honor the gifts of both our capacity to look at what we experience with logic as well as trust our intuitive observations. We are culturally taught to let the analytical mind direct our lives. By doing so, we miss many opportunities to get out of a rut and onto a new path. We repeat the same old annoying patterns in our lives.

To cultivate a juicier life, we can intentionally create spaces of NOT knowing. Instead of jumping to the way we’ve always done it or repeating what we see others do, we pause in the void to allow room for a new creation. It is uncomfortable to hold this undefined space. Yet it is critical to choose to NOT know long enough to deeply listen to our intuitive signals. When we do, we hear spiritual direction that guides us on a path less predictable, more magical.

This blog post was inspired by a speech given by Ron Walters at a technology conference in Boise on the importance of boldness, curiosity and nothing/allowing space for the unknown in the design process.

Dreaming is easy but allowing our dreams to take form can be tricky. Our focused vision, intention and actions eventually result in opportunities to “have” what we desire. If we want the fruits of our creation to become longterm parts of our experience we need to be ready to receive by matching there vibration.

It may be hard to receive because the results don’t come in the form we imagine or because we’re more comfortable with wanting something out in the distance than having it up close. Think of the lottery winner who ends up poorer than they were before they hit the jackpot a few years down the road. They were able to manifest temporary financial prosperity but they couldn’t “have” it in the long run. Their vision of themselves didn’t align with the vibration of wealth.

Blocks that keep us from having what we desire, contribute to self-sabotage such as criticism of what we’ve called into our lives. They keep us seeking rather than satisfied. We have manifested a dream relationship, job, financial success, vacation or home and we don’t let ourselves enjoy it. Or we determine its flawed, we hadn’t seen the reality of it and find its not what we really wanted. We continue to strive for a distant goal rather than appreciate the present moment. We doubt our wisdom in creation, not seeing that we’ve created powerfully and can continue to focus our positive intentions. Our needs shift and become clearer through experience. As we gain clarity on our true desire, we hone in on the feelings we would like to have while living our dream.

One way to practice receiving is through a simple meditation. With your attention centered in your meditative space, between your ears and behind your eyes (sixth chakra):

First insure that your energetic grounding cord, the root that connects the base of your spine to the center of the earth is fresh and set to “full release” so it’s ready to recycle any energy in your aura that you no longer need

When you feel your aura has been cleared of the energy that doesn’t allow you to receive, imagine a large bubble of golden light above your head filled with the vibration of “havingness.” This feels like satisfaction, gratitude and receptivity combined. Add a pinch of joy to that bubble and watch that bubble sink down into your aura space, filling you up with this capacity to HAVE and enjoy what you desire.

In practicing this energy clean-out and fill-in, you align your vibration with receiving. As your dreams come into physical form you are ready to allow the goodness into you life to stay.

Some people fuel their life by tapping into the energy of others. The most skilled energy consumers find a way to hook into us and keep us hanging. Part of their pattern is use of a compelling promise that goes unfulfilled. It is sticky to keep us from detaching from them. This type of draining relationship connection feeds on our deepest desires, making it particularly hard to reclaim our power.

We may notice the relationship has us waiting on a future return but subconsciously feel there’s a payoff in it for us, the fulfillment of something we need. Our desire may be the love they offer, the purpose we feel from helping them, a sense of being valued, or the influence we may gain from connection to their projected power. I call this the hook and retreat energy dynamic.

This friend, lover or family member frequently says or insinuates the value of staying connected to them is in a future promise. “When I do ______, you’re going to get ______.” When I make a lot of money, when I become famous, when I get a divorce, when I get promoted, when I die, when I finish whatever I am doing that requires me to ask you for more energy than I give you in return. Unfortunately the time of rebalancing rarely comes. The energy consumer hasn’t figured out how to generate their own power so they seek it in outside sources. If they do finally achieve a goal, there’s no lasting payout for us because their target changes to a future date.

We all have been on both sides of energy exchange; no one is immune to moments of giving or taking out-of-balance. But when we experience hook and retreat, our body will let us know through a sensation of tightness or queasiness in our belly. This is the location of our third chakra, where we activate our personal power. The body notices that our power is being redirected. The result is less energy for our own creations and a sense of being off-balance.

The hook and retreat relationship has moments that make us feel crazy. The words, actions and energy of the energy consumer are questionable enough to evoke a sense of uncertainty. Our intuition is trying to make us aware of the deception. The energy consumer always believes their own story so they don’t realize they are being deceptive. The imbalance created from the cord into our core makes it hard to see clearly and remove ourselves or renegotiate the relationship.

Here are a couple of tools you can practice to reclaim your power when you have been hooked:

Clean out your 3rd chakra. Visualize a gold rose and see it mopping out that belly area front to back, soaking up all the energy that is not yours in that space. Imagine the rose flying somewhere far away and dissipating. Call your energy back to you from any person you’ve given your power away to and fill the empty space with your own vibration.

Visualize a Protection Rose in the space between you and this person. The intention of the rose is to filter out any attempts to attach to your energy.

The stealth aspect of this behavioral pattern is how it taps into our subconscious desire. We are seduced by a subversive agenda. The truth that we are never going to get the need met is hard to see. It feels possible and it feels strong. By reclaiming our energy space we have the opportunity to see the relationship more clearly and gain energy to use for our own creations.

It’s the perfect time of year to clean cobwebs and dust bunnies out of the corners of our life. The budding of spring evokes a desire to let go of what no longer matches our vision to make room for something fresh and new. Both in our physical world and our spirit, clearing energetic space lightens us up and brings us into the present moment.

To prepare ourselves for new opportunities that show-up along our path in love, at work or home, there are some spiritual spring cleaning tools we can use that don’t cost much more than time and intention.

In ancient spiritual traditions energy is cleared and healed with ritual smudging. Smudging is the act of burning sage, sweet grass or other plants, such as those collected near a place where a lightning strike burnt the earth. The sacred smoke purifies an area or object. Combined with spiritual invocation the smoke absorbs and neutralizes any negative energy. It cleanses the space to make way for new creation.

In The Smudging and Blessings Book Jane Alexander writes, “Cleansing a space or our bodies with techniques such as smudging clears away all the emotional and psychic ‘garbage’ that may have gathered over years or even hundreds of years.” Begin with a lit smudge bundle or braid of sweet grass and something to catch ashes, walk through each room of your home or office and take the smoke to each of the corners of the room. If the weather is nice, open doors and windows to allow fresh air to flow through, moving energy with the planet’s breathe.

After you have smudged the space take a moment to sit meditation. Clear your mind of distractions with deep breathing. Notice the grounding cord connected from the base of your spine down into the center of the earth. When you feel clear and centered visualize a large rose in the center of the home or office space. It’s stem running down through the floor, through the layers of the earth and rooting into the core of the planet. Then see a gold thread coming from each of the top four corners of the building or property into the center of the blossom of the rose. See four more gold threads connecting from the bottom corners of the space to the blossom of the rose. Mentally intend that the space is set at your vibration, in present time, today’s date. If you share space with others you can include their energy.

Clearing and owning the space we live and work in can be done as often as we like. It keeps the vibration current and in alignment with our energy. It makes the space more cooperative with our movements and rest. It removes the distraction of energetic holdovers from past inhabitants or events. Ultimately, cleaning our energetic space increases our intuitive clarity.

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